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New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo plans to sue social networking site Tagged.com for allegedly stealing the identities of its members, raiding their e-mail contact lists and sending out spam in a bid to lure recipients to the site. Tagged's CEO denies the accusations.
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Launch weather conditions continue to threaten the Endeavour space shuttle's planned July 11 liftoff for its journey to the International Space Station. The mission to deliver the final permanent components of Japan's Kibo exposed space laboratory was scratched twice in June due to a launch-pad hydrogen gas leak that NASA thinks it has solved. Now, if only the weather will cooperate.
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The approved legislation supports allowing venture capitalist-backed small businesses to participate in the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs. In addition to increasing R&D award sizes for all participants, the SBIR-STTR bill also aims to help small businesses that support NASA's space shuttle program with the transition through the fleet's 2010 retirement.
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One day after the Senate Commerce Committee approves a bill for a survey of all U.S. spectrum, Rep. Rick Boucher introduces the House version to identify gaps in spectrum use and inefficient spectrum allocations in hopes of finding more spectrum for commercial use.
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NASA says all systems are go for a July 11 liftoff to the International Space Station but predicted showers and thunderstorms may postpone the 16-day mission to deliver the final permanent components of Japan's Kibo laboratory complex. Forecasters predict only a 40 percent chance for Endeavour to hit the launch window.
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In its latest IT Monitor survey, reseller CDW found increased optimism among large enterprises and midsize companies, which reported plans to increase their IT investments in products and people over the coming months. According to the survey, many of these companies and federal government agencies are seeing the IT industry hit the bottom and are preparing to spend money. However, smaller businesses and local governments are less optimistic in their anticipated IT spending, the survey found.
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Government contracting company Smartronix nabs a contract worth $18 million to redesign the Recovery.gov, the federal Website dedicated to tracking stimulus spending.
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The Nokia 3720 classic, shipping this summer, was designed for use in the great outdoors. It features a sealed casing and a built-in flashlight, comes preloaded with Nokia Maps, and can withstand bumps, splashes and drops.
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A new series of cyber-attacks targeting Websites in South Korea was launched today, disrupting both commercial and government sites. The DDOS attacks continue a campaign that began targeting sites in the United States over the July 4 weekend.
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As security researchers work to break down the malicious code tied to a DDOS attack targeting government and commercial sites in the United States and South Korea, more information is leaking out on how the attack happened. Still, much about the attacks–including the motives and identity of attackers-remains unknown.
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The distributed denial of service attacks that swept through U.S. and South Korean government sites has a key cyber-security senator renewing his push for a reform of the Federal Information Security Management Act. The legislation would change the focus of U.S. cyber-security from compliance to detection and prevention.
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NASA and University of Washington scientists use the space agency's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite to determine older, thicker Arctic ice has shrunk by 42 percent over the last four years. The changes in the overall thickness and volume of Arctic Ocean sea ice is blamed on recent warming and anomalies in patterns of sea ice circulation.
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With a launch pad hydrogen gas leak that twice postponed the space shuttle Endeavour's mission to International Space Station in June fixed, Endeavour's crew arrives for a July 11 liftoff. The mission primarily focuses on delivering the last hardware for Japan's Kibo laboratory complex, a literal "front porch" on the ISS for space-exposed science experiments.
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The chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights urges the Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission to examine whether dominant wireless carriers such as AT&T and Verizon are stifling competition with practices that include exclusive arrangements between carriers and cell phone makers, possible text messaging price fixing, and questionable roaming arrangements.
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Microsoft is reportedly in talks with EU regulators over two separate antitrust cases, attempting to resolve the issues before the EU commissioner for competition steps down at the end of 2009. The first case deals with Internet Explorer, while the second centers on certain features of Microsoft Word and Excel. Microsoft had previously planned to release a separate edition of Windows 7 in Europe that excluded Internet Explorer 8 in order to avoid antitrust complaints.
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